Music: Papa the Revolutionary

Papa Haydn wrote this tune,
And a chord is coming soon.
It will be a big surprise.
Open sleepy eyes. Bang.
Sigmund Spaeth

Growing up, learning to play the piano, singing patronizing ditties like
that, small wonder that thousands upon thousands of young children
ended up with kindly but bored thoughts of old Papa Haydn. Set to the
jolly theme from the Surprise Symphony, not unlike Twinkle, Twinkle,
Little Star, it conjured up an image of a doddering prankster whose
place in history was unquestioned but whose music was best ignored. For
much of the late 19th century and most of...